Connections Hints
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Words from the NYT Connections puzzle — February 4, 2026
All 16 words, sorted alphabetically. Group them into four categories of four.
The four category names, easiest to hardest. No words revealed yet.
Theme name plus one word from each category.
CONFLICT, DISCORD, FRICTION, and RIVALRY are all synonyms for contention — a state of dispute or competitive struggle
BINGO, CRAPS, LOTTERY, and WAR are all games whose outcomes depend primarily on chance rather than strategy
APPROX, BOUT, LIKE, and ROUND are all colloquial ways of saying 'more or less' or 'approximately,' as in 'like ten minutes' or 'round a hundred'
BULLSEYE starts with BULLS, HEATED starts with HEAT, MAGICAL starts with MAGIC, and NETSCAPE starts with NETS — all NBA team names